Chris Hedges
Chris Hedges writes a regular column for Truthdig.com. Hedges graduated from Harvard Divinity School and was for nearly two decades a foreign correspondent for The New York Times. He is the author of many books, including: War Is A Force That Gives Us Meaning, What Every Person Should Know About War, and American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America. His most recent book is Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle.
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Views Monday, July 08, 2019 War, Memory and Gettysburg Over 50,000 soldiers were killed, wounded or reported missing in Gettysburg in July 1863, many of them dying in terrible agony on the battlefield or carted off to improvised hospitals where arms and legs were swiftly amputated and tossed into large heaps on the floor. Abysmal hygiene—surgeons would... Read more |
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Views Monday, June 24, 2019 Burning Down the Future The hulk of Grenfell Tower, its charred sides covered by sheets of white plastic, stands as a mute and ominous testament to the disposability of the poor and the primacy of corporate profit. On June 14, 2017, a fire leaped up the sides of the 24-story building, clad in highly flammable siding,... Read more |
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Views Monday, June 17, 2019 The Coming Show Trial of Julian Assange On Friday morning I was in a small courtroom at Westminster Magistrates’ Court in London. Julian Assange, held in Belmarsh Prison and dressed in a pale-blue prison shirt, appeared on a video screen directly in front of me. Assange, his gray hair and beard neatly trimmed, slipped on heavy, dark-... Read more |
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Views Monday, June 10, 2019 The Cult of Trump Editor’s note: The 45th president’s approval ratings remain steady despite numerous scandals and missteps. Below is a Oct. 29, 2018, column in which Hedges analyzes Donald Trump’s seemingly indefatigable appeal. Hedges is speaking in London on Monday and will return with a new column on Julian... Read more |
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Views Monday, June 03, 2019 Manufacturing War With Russia Despite the Robert Mueller report’s conclusion that Donald Trump and his campaign did not collude with Russia during the 2016 presidential race, the new Cold War with Moscow shows little sign of abating. It is used to justify the expansion of NATO to Russia’s borders, a move that has made billions... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, May 28, 2019 The Mass Media Is Poisoning Us With Hate In “ Manufacturing Consent : The Political Economy of the Mass Media,” published in 1988, Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky exposed the techniques that the commercial media used to promote and defend the economic, social and political agendas of the ruling elites. These techniques included... Read more |
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Views Monday, May 20, 2019 America's Reproductive Slaves On Wednesday, the day it was announced that the U.S. birthrate fell for the fourth straight year, signaling the lowest number of births in 32 years, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey signed into law the most draconian anti-abortion law in the country. That the two developments came at the same time could not... Read more |
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Views Monday, May 13, 2019 Integrity Forged in Cages The following are remarks delivered by the author to 27 graduating students who were formerly incarcerated—several of whom he taught in prison—and their families at Rutgers University on Friday. The ceremony was held by the Mountainview Program at Rutgers , which helps students complete their... Read more |
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Views Monday, May 06, 2019 Creeping Toward Tyranny The destruction of the rule of law, an action essential to establishing an authoritarian or totalitarian state, began long before the arrival of the Trump administration. The George W. Bush administration’s invasion of Iraq and implementation of a doctrine of pre-emptive war were war crimes under... Read more |
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Views Monday, April 29, 2019 The Last Battle of the Cree Nation The Beaver Lake Cree Nation, Treaty No. 6 Area, Canada—I am driving down a rutted dirt road with Eric Lameman, a member of the Cree nation. “Over there,” he says, pointing out where he was born in a tent 61 years ago. We stop the car and look toward a wooded grove. “That’s the mass grave,” he says... Read more |